Farming, Saturday, September 6,1980
SYRACUSE, 'N.Y. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
BergUnd presented a cer
tificate officially designating
New York as “Accredited
free of Tuberculosis in
Cattle” in special
ceremonies in Syracuse last
Wednesday.
The certificate honoring
New York dairy and beef
cattle producers for this
achievement was presented
to J. Roger Barber, Com
missioner of the N.Y.
Department of Agriculture
and Mariiets, following a
dinner sponsored by the
Syracuse Chamber of
Commerce at the Hotel
Syracuse.
“The eradiction of
tuberculosis in cattle has
been a cooperative effort of
state and federal animal
health officials made
possible through the
dedicated work of the dairy
and beef producers of New
York,” Bergland reports
According to Dr. Harold E.
Nadler, Director of the
Division of Animal Industry
in New York, over 17 million
cattle have been tuberculin
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N.Y. dairy, beef cattle
tested in the state since 1919.
This testing disclosed over
900,000 reactor animals. No
infected animals have been
found in New York herds
since 1971, however.
To be accredited free of
bovine tuberculosis a state
must fulfill standards of the
cooperative state-federal
eradiction program in
cluding-
No infected cattle found in
the state for at least five
years;
State enforced laws and
regulations governing
livestock dealers;
Identifying diseases
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that permits us to monitor crucifers; tomatoes and
seed quality much more peppers; snap beans,
accurately than present soybeans, corn, wheat,
methods do,” explains the peaches and citrus crops, as
plant pathologist. well as some ornamentals.
“There are easily 70,000 Delaware is the only
seeds in a pound. Right now research station in the U.S.
one contaminated seed in doing such comprehensive
10,000 is the maximum work with selective media
allowable rate if a grower or for the screening of bacterial
seed company sends seeds to disease. The work is being
Georgia to start transplants funded by a grant from the
for peppers to be grown in U.S. Department of
Delaware. But the current Agriculture and is part of a
assay procedure is so cooperative, regional project
inefficient it could be on the “Detection and
missing 98 percent of the Elimination of Bacterial
bacteria present in a seed Contaminants of Seeds and
lot. By contrast, the selec- Plant Parts” which involves
tive media we’ve developed almost every major plant
for a screening bacterial pathologist in the U.S.
disease should be totally “This kind of research
effective.” costs a lot of money,” says
So far the research team
has developed selective
media which identify bac
terial diseases m cucumbers
and melons; cabbage,
radishes, broccoli and other
Continued ouiveillance of
all cattle in market channels
by animal health officials;
and
Record keeping that
enables- state officials to
trace infected animals found
in market channels back to
their herd of c-igin
Other states designated by
USDA as accredited free of
bovine tuberculosis are
Colorado, Connecticut,
Maine, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana, New
Hampshire, New Jersey,
New Mexico, North
Carolina, North Dakota,
Sasser. “It will take at least
three years to produce
conclusive results. Though
not splashy, these will have a
tremendous impact on
agricultural production.”
said tuberculosis free
Rhode Island, Utah, Ver
mont and Wyoming
Four herds in the con
tinental United States have
been found infected with
bovine tuberculosis during
this fiscal year - compared
with 17 herds in fiscal 1979.
Veterinary officials with
USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
urge dairy and beef cattle
producers to buy
replacement cattle from
herds free of the disease